we are turning to a fox wildfire alert. the death toll in in the tragic maui wildfires is increasing overnight to one hundred 14 and the fires are still burning on parts of the island as the pentagon says it is sending an additional 700 personnel to help end the fires. yesterday the prime minister of japan offered his support for the deadly wildfires. i express my sympathy and i really pray for the piece of those that have lost their lives, in order to offer support, $2 million worth of support. might be more empathy than our own president has expressed, president biden is planning to visit maui on monday. the trial of brian coburg are will begin on the original scheduled date after a judge denied his legal team s request to delay it yesterday. s defense saying the grand
more. they do more for ukraine that they re doing for own fellow americans in hawaii right now. a president who is not even showed up in hawaii since that catastrophe. i think that s shameful. but the reality is, what did contribute to those deaths, and this is a hard truth, is the delay in providing water, despite multiple requests that were made for access. and the person who was still mulling it is an obama appointee, who has a world view that is based on water protection. it is a climate activist. and so i think it s a sad soup norrie. the romney, i think we could do this all day. i m looking forward to speaking with you again soon. thank you very much for your time today. i appreciate it. we should mention that president biden is traveling to maui on monday. also this interview was conducted before news broke that trump would not be at the first republican debate. now, ramos 20, after initially claiming in april to the press that he would not let trump get away with skipping t
life safety, evacuation planning, response planning, making sure the limited evacuation routes are clear, the cell towers have protected backup particular. these are the kind of planning we need to do in advance. if we can implement those, we can make a lot more places safer to live. without that, you re right that some places are going to be very dangerous. even here in berkeley, california, there are certain days where they advise residents in the berkeley hills to come down under the very highest fire hazard. it s not required, but it lowers the population up there in the re event of emergency. president biden is heading to maui on monday. what would you want him to see or hear about, what kind of change do you believe could be provoked from his visit? well, first and foremost, i think the residents need support. this is just a tragedy. it s devastating. we saw in paradise, california,
there are people from california, as far as i know. other counties. so, we are on, very very high alert. so, my expectation, of course, is that none of this is going to accelerate. yeah as, you know, the bidens will visit the maui on monday. do you believe that the federal government has done enough to support your constituents? we are going to need continuing efforts by the federal government, all of what we call the family of federal agencies. in, fact president biden was one the first people to call me last week, as well as a number of senior administration officials, including the secretaries of the department of defense. the d. o. t., it said. or the continuity of effort from all of us will be required.
that destroyed lahaina. there were several fires that have been burning. it was shot a bird sanctuary on maui on monday, august 7th, after a few seconds you will see a white flash. you see it there. now, we have paused on that so you can see it more clearly. now, in the following moments, not long after that, the camera pans around and just a few minutes later, flames are burning in the distance. we ve highlighted those for you here. at the same time of that first flash the washington post reports ten sensors went off in the town where the sensors are located. basically on the other side of the island to lahaina. a hawaiian electric, maui s main power company released a statement to the washington post saying they are focused on supporting responders right now. then they went on to say, we know there is speculation about what started the fires and we, along with others, are working hard to figure out what happened. cnn s niek ha mike valerio isn